SAN BERNARDINO – Candles have been placed in the courtyard of the River Glen Apartments where the body of Anthony Turner Jr. lay Wednesday after he was fatally shot and another man was wounded

Family of the 25-year-old father of two young boys say Turner was visiting a friend at the complex in the 1200 block of East Lynwood Drive when two gunmen apparently approached Turner as he was playing in a dice game.

It’s unclear what, if anything, prompted shots to ring out at approximately 3:10 p.m. Wednesday.

“He didn’t have a problem with anyone,” said Turner’s sister, Antoinette Turner, 22. “He got along with everybody.”

Between 50 and 100 people prayed and sang during a candlelight vigil on Thursday night at the complex, said Candy Palmer, a cousin.

Police hadn’t determined a motive for the shooting Wednesday and no updates were available Friday. A 37-year-old unidentified man wounded in the shooting was recovering at a hospital, police said.

Mark Daniel Taylor, 23, of Rialto and Marcus Ladale Ross, 20, of San Bernardino were arrested shortly after the shooting on suspicion of homicide and attempted homicide, police said.

Anthony Turner’s sons will turn 1 and 4 years old this year.

The boys’ mother, who was Turner’s fiancee, hasn’t been able to tell her oldest son what happened yet, Antoinette Turner said.

“His mom is waiting for the right time,” she said. “She’s hurting so bad. She can’t do it right now. (Her son is) going to be wondering why his dad’s not coming home.”

Antoinette, other family members and friends describe her brother as man with a friendly, jovial personality whose focus was caring for his family.

“He was a man,” Antoinette said. “Everything he did, he did for his family. He wanted to be a better man than his dad. Our dad was a hell of a man. He just wanted to be better.”

He graduated in 2003 from Bloomington High School, where he played basketball and football, said Auiwon Hicks, a family friend.

He had many friends and was known for his sense of humor and a bright smile that Hicks said “could light up a room.”

Turner once lived at the River Glen Apartments but moved his family away due to the prevalence of gangs in the area, Hicks said.

“He didn’t want his kids growing up in that (environment),” Hicks said.